Senior Data Engineer

Job Title: Senior Data Engineer

📍 Location: Remote (U.S.-based only)

🕒 Type: Full-time

💵 Salary Range: $196,000–$220,500 base + equity + benefits

💻 Team: Data & Engineering

About the Role

As a Senior Data Engineer at Discord, you will play a central role in building and maintaining high-leverage data pipelines and foundational datasets. These systems power business intelligence, machine learning, experimentation, and product analytics across the organization.

This is a hands-on, collaborative role where you’ll work with data scientists, product engineers, and ML teams to build robust, scalable, and cost-efficient data infrastructure—used to drive key decisions for over 200 million monthly users, most of whom are gamers.

Key Responsibilities

• Build Scalable Data Pipelines: Design, implement, and maintain robust ETL/ELT workflows and datasets that power core analytics and ML models.
• Architect Complex Databases: Structure large-scale data for both efficiency and usability across business functions.
• Ensure Data Quality: Implement anomaly detection, data validation, and alerting systems to ensure reliability.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work with data science, ML, and product engineering teams to improve instrumentation and expand data coverage.
• Dashboarding & Reporting: Build dashboards and reports to drive data-driven decision-making.
• Performance Optimization: Continuously improve data pipeline performance and cost-effectiveness.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience building and maintaining data pipelines in production environments
• Proficient in SQL and Python for data processing and scripting
• Strong experience in data modeling from both structured and unstructured data sources
• Familiar with monitoring and alerting for data quality at scale (e.g., billions of rows)
• Proven ability to communicate with cross-functional teams and manage stakeholders in dynamic, ambiguous environments
• Collaborative mindset with curiosity and a passion for solving hard problems

Bonus Points For

• Experience with BigQuery, Airflow, DBT
• Experience with dashboarding tools like Looker or Tableau
• Previous experience designing data architecture for experimentation and ML
• Passion for gaming, online communities, or Discord itself
• Track record of owning and improving data systems for specific product or business domains

Why Join Discord?

• Play a critical role in a platform with 200M+ users monthly, shaping the infrastructure that powers core decision-making
• Tackle some of the most complex data challenges in consumer tech and gaming
• Join a collaborative, passionate team in a company that values connection, fun, and gaming culture
• Enjoy a competitive compensation package with equity, benefits, and room to grow

✅ Ideal Fit If You:

• Thrive in fast-paced, high-growth environments
• Love building scalable systems with a direct impact on product and user experience
• Are data-driven but also people-first—communicative, curious, and team-oriented